MS Live / Hotmail accounts registered via BOT's

["Hubbard, Dan" <dhubbard () websense com>]

We have seen this with Yahoo! but not with MS Live/Hotmail...

http://www.websense.com/securitylabs/blog/blog.php?BlogID=171

Some details....more within the blog post..

Windows Live Mail accounts have been targeted in recent spammer tactics.
In these recent attacks, spammers have managed to create bots that are
capable of signing up and creating random Live Mail accounts that could
be used for a wide range of subsequent attacks.

Windows Live Mail is a part of the Microsoft Windows Live portfolio of
services. It is a free webmail service by Microsoft. It was first
announced on November 1, 2005 as an update to the Microsoft MSN Hotmail
service. Its worldwide release was on May 7, 2007, and roll-out to all
existing users was completed in October 2007.

Websense believes that there are three main advantages to this approach
for the spammers. First, the Microsoft domain is unlikely to be
blacklisted. Second, they are free to sign up. And third, it may be hard
to keep track of them as there are millions of users worldwide using the
service.

        
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